AARRON FLINT of the FLINT REPORT from Montana had this Veteran dis-enrollment from the VA and the Affordable Health Care Act all figured out September 25, 2013.
Here is the link to his Talk Radio Show and this topic:
http://www.northernbroadcasting.com/Tal ... idies.aspx
Here is a quote from his story on the topic. "NOT MINE"
"Veterans: Disenroll from VA or No Obamacare Subsidies"
"I also found the above update from the VA quite interesting from this standpoint: if you want to take advantage of the subsidies (many don't because they feel Obamacare and the $17+ trillion debt is endangering the very country they fought for) you will actually have to drop your enrollment with the VA in order to qualify for subsidized coverage. Veterans would have to do this knowing that, by dropping their enrollment in VA care, they could jeopardize their ability to enroll in VA care ever again. (Notice that reminder in the same FAQ mailed out by the VA)
After reading the flyer, I wanted to make sure I understood it correctly. So I called the VA in Montana. Based on the recommendation of the press officer, I checked with VA Montana's Todd Dunlap, who is intimately familiar with this choice facing veterans. In a phone call, he said, "there hasn't been a firm answer as to what the best option is." He added that for the VA "there's still a ton of bits and pieces that have to get ironed out" when it comes to Obamacare.
For any of you out there not familiar with the process, veterans can be simultaneously enrolled in VA health care without receiving free health care from the VA. In fact, all veterans are encouraged to enroll in the VA, since the failure to do so early on could lead to the inability to enroll later on. The end result- veterans are forced with the choice of disenrolling from VA care, or losing out on subsidized care outside of the VA.
Going forward, while disabled veterans and wounded warriors have to sit on a shuttle bus for sometimes hours at a time for service-connected care, they can watch as millions of other Americans who didn't serve their country simply get their free handout."
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POSTED ON MARCH 16, 2014 BY SCOTT JOHNSON IN HEALTH CARE
A reader writes in response to the congressional testimony of Sally Pipes linked in “The Pipes proviso”:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/03/the-pipes-proviso-the-va-angle.php
"As a former medicine resident and current cardiology fellow, I have spent more time working at various VA hospitals than all but those courageous physicians who make a career of working within its bureaucracy and unions. (As the joke goes, what’s the difference between a bullet and a VA nurse? You can fire a bullet. A bullet can only kill once. A bullet can draw blood.)
I encounter on a daily basis the rationing to which Ms. Pipes refers. Although we are generally able to see patients for an initial visit in a somewhat timely manner, repeat visits are much harder to come by. A patient that I might see on a biweekly basis in private practice, I will see every few months at the VA. And for all but local patients, driving dozens, if not over a hundred, miles is required in order to see a specialist.
For specialized procedures, the VA often only performs operations at one location across the country. One center in particular has a backlog of over 4 months and is essentially refusing to see new patients (fortunately, this same service is performed across the street at a local hospital).
Another patient of mine has been denied a life-saving procedure due to high operative risk (a reasonable assessment in this day and age of surgical mortality ratings). However, the VA bureaucracy refuses to allow an outside referral for a second opinion on the grounds that it has already been decided that the patient is not a candidate for surgery. I was reduced to telling my patient that the VA had failed him, and he should seek outside care. Fortunately, he had paid his Medicare premiums, and this was an option. Occasionally, patients will fail to do this, in the belief that the VA can take care of all of their healthcare needs."